Smith v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Stephens county, Oklahoma, upon a charge of embezzling certain personal property, to wit, one hog, of the value of $22.84. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged, and assessed the punishment at imprisonment for one year in the penitentiary. The defendant, in his motion for a new trial, sets out nine separate errors alleged to- have been committed by the trial court.

Counsel for defendant in his brief argues only the first and fifth specifications of error; the first being: “The verdict of the…